Ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. Icons are an effective way to present options and features on your web pages to reach a broader audience. Label your icons Just as images on a website should be given text alternatives for web accessibility, icons should be accompanied by visible labels […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter. With videos published to the campus websites, transcripts should be created and offered alongside the video. For many popular services (including campus systems such as Brightspace), transcriptions and closed captioning can be created automatically. While […]
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Do you know how much traffic your website receives? Have you looked at Google Analytics for your website and don’t know where to start? Digital Communications can create interactive data reports or dashboards with your website’s data using Google Data Studio. During the workshop we will work with your website to create filterable dashboards to […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. In late January the Maine State Government updated their Web Accessibility and Usability Policy. It is worth reviewing this ten page […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy.April 2 was World Autism Awareness Day, and this reminded us that there are design considerations for reducing the cognitive load of our […]
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Our UMS IT developers have been hard at work making some important updates to our website in 2021, and this month we roll out two new features: People list content block The People list content block now allows for adding more people to a single list. The limit had previously been 25 people per list, […]
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(Portions of this item originally appeared in our November 2018 newsletter) Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy.This month, we focus on email, and pitfalls to avoid when […]
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Due to the security risks associated with collecting and storing user data, website business owners should carefully consider how they use web forms. The University of Maine System Web Technologies Group has published guidance that explains the options available to content editors using WordPress, the content management system used for most public University of Maine System […]
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Article list content block The article list content block now offers more UMaine News categorization options: University News academic areas This categorization option allows you to only display news articles for a particular college, as well as Honors College and Graduate School. University News regions This categorization option allows for display of news articles of […]
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Do you have students who will be creating a website as part of a team project or capstone? If the resulting website will become a resource for public use, it is important that this content is maintained within our campus WordPress environment and not a Google Site or externally-hosted domain. Before you get started, consider using […]
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